PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171060Skinny: I think most people go overkill on PSU's. My 2 biggest power sinks here are the CPU and GFX, which combined cap power usage at just over 200 watts. Even giving them to 250 (more than they CAN drain) that still leaves 200W for MoBo, Memory, and drives. Only potential issue with this is if I double up my GFX card (buy a 2nd GTX 550) and even then, 450W would probably cut it. If I can find a 500-550 on sale between now and when I buy my last component... I'll snag a few extra watts

Case: Starting out with a broken (cheap stock PSU shorted and fried the mobo) PoS I got hanging around. Going to gut it and reuse it. Long term I'll buy a bigger better case. I usually go for ease of use, open space (natural cooling), and practicality over flashy lights and shit. Antec 300 is a good example of what I might get.

Builder: Me... and definitely NOT guts dad. I'd like it to work for more than 1 day and be able to actually run SC2 w/o crashing.

Any comments or advice welcome. Any warnings about specific issues definitely welcome

200watts!?!? Good lord man, were you high when you worked out your PSU req?

Lol I dont know where you got 200watts for combined CPU+GFX drain, just those two combined will drain about 400-450 watts. Add on all the other junk, HDD, DVD drives, RAM etc and your looking at 480watt minimum PSU requirement.

Get a 550w PSU, or a 850w one if your seriously considering running two graphics cards, better off buying a 850w now then having to to buy a completely new PSU when you need to run SLI.

I'm looking to switch over from AMD to an Ivy Bridge system soon. Damn, if you lived near me I'd sell you my Mobo, Processor (which has a copy of windows tied to it) at a decent discount. But... since you don't live near me, messing with shipping sucks!

I'd check out these articles. Toms Hardware is my site for all reviews really

I highly recommend looking into a Mobo that supports Crossfire/SLI with 8x8x.

This will make your future upgrade potential much higher. Say a year down the road you wanna bump BF3 up to Ultra, and run the New Unreal 4 engine. just pop in another 6850 and BAM, you can increase your framerate 70-100%

I did that in my system with my 5830, wasn't quite getting the performance I wanted, so I wen't and purchased another about 6 months after I originally purchased my system.